| General Features | Sputnik | GWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
8.08.13
|
2.4.0
|
TWiki-6.1.0
|
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
|
| Last Release Date |
2008-08-12 (15 years ago)
|
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
|
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
|
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2009-02-02 (15 years ago)
|
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
|
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
|
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
|
| Author |
Yuri Takhteyev
|
Roger Rene Kommer
|
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
|
Andreas Gohr
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
MIT/X
|
Apache License, Version 2.0
|
GPL
|
GPL 2
|
| Programming Language |
Lua
|
Java
|
Perl, JavaScript
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database, Files, RCS
|
Database, Files
|
Files, RCS
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
Free
|
N/A
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Small teams or private users
|
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
|
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
| System Requirements | Sputnik | GWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
|
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, CGI, Xavante
|
All Java Servlet Container, included
|
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
gcc or Lua
|
Java 1.8+
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
|
| Datastorage | Sputnik | GWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Other |
Git
|
Google Datastore
|
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
|
None
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Sputnik | GWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
Internal and external with adapter
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Development/Support | Sputnik | GWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
4 ⭐
|
N/A
|
3582 ⭐
|
| Common Features | Sputnik | GWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Sputnik | GWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian |
2
German, English |
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
No
|
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
None
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Links | Sputnik | GWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki |
| CamelCase |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | Sputnik | GWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
All
|
All
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
Lua, JavaScript
|
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
|
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
Optional, PHP
|
| Content Includes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Sputnik | GWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | Sputnik | GWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Output | Sputnik | GWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
No
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | Sputnik | GWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | Sputnik | GWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki |
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | Sputnik | GWiki | TWiki | DokuWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[Sputnik]] |
[path/Page] [My Title|path/Page] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
| External Link |
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org) |
[http://example.com] |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
| Headlines |
# Sputnik |
h1. Heading 1 h2. Heading 2 |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
| Bold Format |
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__ |
*Bold Format* |
*bold* |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_ |
_Italic format_ |
_italic_ |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
|
+Unterlined+ |
<u>underline</u> |
__underlined__ |
| Monospace Format |
|
{{Monospace}} |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
''monospace'' |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
-StrikeThrough- |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
| Superscript Format |
|
^Superscript^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
|
~Subscript~ |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
|
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png! |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
| Aligning Text |
|
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div} |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
Plugin |
| Text Indentation |
> Sputnik |
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div} |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
N/A |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Sputnik |
- Item 1 - Item 2 -- Sub Item |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Sputnik |
# Item 1 # Item 2 ## Sub Item |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
|
* Item 1 * Item 2 ** Sub Item |
$ Term: Definition |
Plugin |
| Horizontal Rule |
- - - |
---- |
--- |
---- |
| remove Sputnik | remove GWiki | remove TWiki | remove DokuWiki |